Thanks for the tip Don

Best wishes

Ross

Dr Ross Tinsley 
Head of Research | Editor IHTSJ
International Hospitality and Tourism Research Centre
HTMi | Hotel and Tourism Management Institute | Switzerland
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On 24 Jan 2013, at 23:34, "MacQueen, Don" <macqueen1@llnl.gov> wrote:

> Just a small followup; it's not necessary to use the GUI. I regularly
> install packages with dependencies in R running in an xterm shell.
> (Using X windows so that I can run R on remote linux machines, displaying
> graphics back to my local desktop)
> 
> Very few, if any, CRAN packages need to be installed from source on a Mac.
> 
> -Don
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> Don MacQueen
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> 
> 
> On 1/23/13 5:50 AM, "Ross Tinsley" <rtinsley@htmi.ch> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks everyone for the support, ideas and pointers in the right
>> directions. I'm now successfully installing packages with dependencies
>> using the GUI. Downloading the command line tools in Xcode was the key, I
>> believe. 
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> 
>> Ross
>> 
>> Dr Ross Tinsley 
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>> International Hospitality and Tourism Research Centre
>> HTMi | Hotel and Tourism Management Institute | Switzerland
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